View report page

36
ERYSIPELAS.
The 28 cases of this disease represent infection in 27 different
premises. In 2 of these, insanitary conditions of a slight nature
existed, and in no case were the sanitary defects grave. In 2 cases
there was a previous local injury, and) in 5 a history of previous attacks.
ENTERIC OR TYPHOID FEVER.
The 11 cases notified during the year all occurred in nine different
houses. In three of these houses grave insanitary conditions existed,
and in one slight insanitary conditions existed; while in the
remaining five there were no insanitary conditions. One of the cases
doubtless contracted the disease outside of London during the summer
and autumn holidays. The origin of the infection remained quite
obscure in the majority of cases; and in several instances, as I pointed
out in a previous Report, the patient had been ailing for several
weeks before he took to his bed and the disease was diagnosed.
The indirect infection through contaminated mussels appears on
good grounds to have been responsible for the disease in one instance.
In three cases, the original infection was responsible for the disease,
in a second individual in the same dwelling.